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What happens when company grows from 10 to 100 people? Initially there’s a group of highly motivated and hard working people led by one or a couple of visionaries. Everyone knows each other well. Everyone knows what anyone else is doing at the moment. Then some success happens and organization grows. At the beginning it […]
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I have a small task for you. Think about a few people you know and you consider them as great professionals. Don’t limit yourself to any single role – choose anyone who is great no matter if he’s a manager or a developer or a dustman. Got them? Fine. Now a second step – try […]
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One of reasons why I like Kanban so much is because it doesn’t force you to formalize your process. You don’t need to set strict time-boxing for example. If you want to – fine do it, but if it doesn’t suit you fine no one forces you. If you happen to work in environment where […]
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When you read about Kanban the thing which usually isn’t described in details is what happens with sticky notes which make their way to the right side of the board and are in the last column of your Kanban Board (however you call it). To be honest I didn’t put much thought in that when […]
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I really liked Scrum versus Kanban session I made along with Piotr during Engineering Academy “Diamond Polishing” (both sites in Polish only). The theme of my part of presentation and the following discussion was the sentence I took from Henrik Kniberg must-read article on Kanban: “I don’t know, experiment.” – What kind of columns I […]
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Recently I had a lot of occasions to discuss Kanban with other people, the coolest one being last meeting of Engineering Academy “Diamond Polishing” (for you who speaks Polish there’s video recording available online). One of things which I stressed during these discussions is that Kanban is not enough to manage a software project. I […]
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Our initial Kanban board was pretty simple. It looked like that. From the beginning we were set up to experiment and adjust it on the way. Here’s what we have changed. 1. Documentation First thing was documentation. I know that’s not even trendy anymore to write documentations but yes, we do it. It helps us […]
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Last two posts of the series (on Kanban Board and on setting up whole thing) were Kanban implementation-in-a-pill kind of story. As you may guess that’s not all since Kanban doesn’t prescribe many things which you can use and, most of the time, you do. To show the big picture there are two lists: practices […]
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One of stages of one-afternoon Kanban setup we did was creating our own Kanban Board. We just discussed what we wanted on the board adding columns which appeared reasonable for everyone. This is what we came up with. To describe stages: • Backlog is a big bag where I willingly throw in anything anyone wants […]
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So you want a story about the most painless implementation of new software development/project management methodology in industry history? Here it goes. There was nice afternoon, sun was shining and air-conditioning was silently humming. One of our engineers asked me what about this new methodology we were talking about a couple of weeks earlier. So […]
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